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  • Rewriting You by Emilia Finn

    Rewriting You by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    I’m a mom to teenagers… I’m also my late husband’s executioner.He was an abusive man on the fast track to devastation. He hung me from a fancy chandelier to die. Had my saviours driven the long way home, I wouldn’t be here today to tell my story. It’s been a long road since then, but my children and I have finally moved back to town. It’s time to lay some ghosts to bed...
  • Wild Island Love by Melissa Foster

    Wild Island Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Sparks fly between a PR rep and an A-list actor who want nothing to do with each other.Leni Steele might be looking for love, but she’s definitely not looking to be someone’s fake date. Especially not one of the most infuriatingly handsome and annoyingly cocky actors on the planet, Duncan Raz...
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  • Mistletoe and Magic for the Cornish Midwife by Jo Bartlett

    Mistletoe and Magic for the Cornish Midwife by Jo Bartlett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The brand new instalment in the top 10 bestselling Cornish Midwife series!It’s the most wonderful time of the year…But for single mum and busy midwife Nadia, it’s quickly turning into her worst Christmas ever.Her marriage is over, and whilst her husband has moved on, Nadia finds herself back home, squashed into her mum’s spare room with her two small children...
  • Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

    Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The mysterious Cy Davies is coming home. He’s not coming alone either. Having rescued Gemma Perry, a sassy investigative reporter for a gossip magazine, he takes her to the one place he knows he can keep her safe. Keeneston. Gemma Perry was having a bad week. Now she was in a small town where gossip was a currency...
  • Last Summer at the Beach House: Feel Good Beachy Women's Fiction by Maggie Miller

    Last Summer at the Beach House: Feel Good Beachy Women's Fiction by Maggie Miller

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    All she wanted was one last summer at the beach house...When the unthinkable happens and Claire Thompson’s husband dies suddenly, she’s left wondering how to go on. Being a wife and mother is all she’s ever known. Grieving and lost, she decides to take her family for one last trip to their beach house before she’s forced to put it up for sale...
  • All You Need Is Love by Jessica Redland

    All You Need Is Love by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    When you’ve loved and lost, how do you find the strength to let love in again?Jemma thinks she’s found the love of her life. Scott is everything she ever dreamed of and she can’t wait to begin the next stage of their life together. But just as she is heading for her happy ever after, a shock revelation shatters Jemma’s life as she knows it...
  • Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kale Mueez just wants to work on his computer programs and, okay, some not-so-legal hacking. Even though he sold one of his computer software companies for more money than he’d ever need, he wasn’t one to sit back and do nothing. That is especially true since his father is a super soldier known around the world...
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    mystery  m-f  contemporary  suspense  humor  length-medium
  • A New Dawn at Owl's Lodge by Jessica Redland

    A New Dawn at Owl's Lodge by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Could one chance meeting change your life forever?Zara is at a crossroads in life. While she adores her job as a producer's assistant working on hit TV shows, travelling around the country means she doesn't truly feel that she has a home. With a fractured relationship with her family and unrequited love weighing heavily on her heart, she is torn about what her next step in life should be..
    Categorized as:
    m-f  small town  contemporary  humor  length-medium
  • The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland

    The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Autumn Laine has lost her creative sparkle. After losing her grandad and her job as an illustrator in quick succession, she is at a crossroads in life and needs a break. Spending time with her parents in Paris, even in the artistic community of Montmartre, doesn't appear to be the answer...
  • Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

    Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Bertie returns to London from several weeks in Cannes spent in the company of his Aunt Dahlia Travers and her daughter Angela...
  • Marriage and Murder by Penny Reid

    Marriage and Murder by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 53 ratings
    The Devil is in the details . . . Cletus Byron Winston wishes to marry Jennifer Anne Donner-Sylvester (aka The Banana Cake Queen) posthaste! He’s spent the last year wanting nothing more than for the celebrations to be brief, libations flowing, and BYOB (bring your own blueberries)...
  • Forever Connected by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Connected by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Years ago, on the darkest night of Poppy and Zinnia’s lives, they got a letter. It was from three elderly sisters in the small town of Keeneston, inviting them to visit and if interested, take a job. The Rose Sisters had wanted to retire, but they’d wanted family to take over their small café...
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    mystery  m-f  contemporary  suspense  humor  length-medium
  • New Arrivals at Hedgehog Hollow by Jessica Redland

    New Arrivals at Hedgehog Hollow by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    With new arrivals comes new responsibilities...The sun is shining, wild flowers are blooming and Hedgehog Hollow is officially open for business.For Samantha, the proud owner of this beautiful rescue centre, life has never been busier...
  • A Breath of Fresh Air by Jessica Redland

    A Breath of Fresh Air by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The BRAND NEW uplifting novel from MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland Rosie feels like there's something missing in her life.She loves her job as the manager of Willowdale Hall Riding Stables, caring for the horses and teaching children to ride, and she loves the home she shares with her mother in the beautiful Lake District...
  • Dirty Little Midlife (fake) Date by Lilian Monroe

    Dirty Little Midlife (fake) Date by Lilian Monroe

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Brooding, grumpy Des has a problem. He needs a date to his family's Thanksgiving reunion for reasons he'd...rather not say.Single mother and all-around hot mess Mia has an even bigger issue: She can't afford her rent, and her new landlord Des is a major you-know-what.So, they make a deal. One simple weekend away in exchange for a serious rent reduction...
  • Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Hunter Townsend loves his new home in the small town of Shadows Landing. It’s his sanctuary when he comes home from a mission as part of his Special Forces team. Maggie, the infuriating, monogram loving, bright color wearing, cuter than she should be woman, who loves to tease him was the only issue in Shadows Landing. Until a mission goes wrong . .
  • Talk Wicked to Me: Baz Wicked by Melissa Foster

    Talk Wicked to Me: Baz Wicked by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Veterinarian and Dark Knights biker Baxter “Baz” Wicked, the most charming and mysterious of the family, has a career he loves, a brotherhood he trusts, and plans that don’t include settling down just yet. Come along for the unexpected, hilarious, and heart-wrenching ride as Baz discovers that life and love can be messy, and carefully crafted plans can’t hold a candle to ten tiny fingers and toes...
    Categorized as:
    small town  m-f  contemporary  humor
  • Rising Storm by Kathleen Brooks

    Rising Storm by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Katelyn Jacks was used to being front and center as a model. But she never had to confront the Keeneston Grapevine! After retiring from the runway and returning to town to open a new animal clinic, Katelyn found that her life in the public eye was anything but over...
  • Only for You by Melissa Foster

    Only for You by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Love only works when your heart is in the right place. Hers could be right next door… Single mom Bridgette Dalton doesn’t have time to stop and smell the roses—not even in her own flower shop. But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t noticed Bodhi Booker. Her ruggedly handsome next-door neighbor would be the perfect candidate for a no-strings fling...
  • Dirty Minds by Liliana Hart

    Dirty Minds by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Coroner J.J. Graves and Sheriff Jack Lawson are in a race against time as they hunt down a sniper who is taking the law into his own hands. No one is safe, and everyone is a target...
  • Twined Bond by Emma Hart

    Twined Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    All is well in Holly Woods. My best friend's love triangle is now a happy little circle. My sister-in-law just gave birth to my gorgeous new niece who is the world's best cuddler, and Nonna's—kind of—not on my back every ten minutes about the fact we're getting married in one month. *Supposedly.* Until the mayor's niece—our baker for the wedding—commits suicide...
  • Together Under a Snowy Skye by Lisa Hobman

    Together Under a Snowy Skye by Lisa Hobman

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    After the heartbreak of a secret unrequited love, Millie Treadaway has finally found someone to spend her life with.Harry Rose is handsome, successful and treats her like a princess. That is until Millie presents her fiancé with a surprise birthday gift, and their future is suddenly doomed...
  • Wicked Heart by Ivy Layne

    Wicked Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finn Sawyer hates everything about being back in Sawyers Bend. He walked away from his family years before, living off his wits and skills in the kitchen, refining his craft as he worked his way across Europe. Then the father who left him for dead is murdered, and the will offers Finn a chance at his dream...
  • Twirled Bond by Emma Hart

    Twirled Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    If I thought Holly Woods was crazy before, I was wrong. Devin is finally married. Nonna's on the wedding warpath. Drake might be getting ideas. His mom just dropped a bombshell, and Bek is caught between a hot as hell FBI agent and my super-sweet little brother. And I still don't have the shoe closet Drake promised me when he moved in six months ago...
  • Charmer by Kayley Loring

    Charmer by Kayley Loring

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    NICOShe serves me coffee late at night when I come around to write lyrics,but it’s not the caffeine I’ve gotten addicted to.We’ve got the spark, but she’s the only woman in townwho seems to be immune to my charms.When it’s time for me to leave for my cross-country tour,I just can’t imagine not seeing her for months.So I offer her a job on the road with me...
  • Reckless by Adriana Locke

    Reckless by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    “How did you get in here?”That’s not what you want to hear when you’re staring into the sea-green eyes of the hottest man you’ve ever seen. Yet I suppose it’s a fair question, considering I’m an uninvited stranger standing in Boone Mason’s kitchen.If you think that’s bad—just wait. It gets worse...
  • Forever Hidden by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Hidden by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Some things weren't meant to stay hidden... Sydney Davies is used to being in the spotlight. But the former model turned fashion designer isn’t used to family secrets. Sydney is sent to dig up the past. What she finds instead is Deacon and a case of a missing girl with a link back to her life in the fashion industry...
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    mystery  m-f  humor  suspense  contemporary  length-medium
  • Happy Endings at Mermaids Point by Sarah Bennett

    Happy Endings at Mermaids Point by Sarah Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Music sensation Aurora Storm finally has her career back on track, but then she’s caught up in a media storm. Desperate to distract from the story, she enlists the one man she trusts to pretend to be her boyfriend. Meanwhile, in the small seaside village of Mermaids Point, Nick Morgan never expected to see Aurora again. When she calls out of the blue needing his help, he agrees at once...
  • Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg

    Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lilian doesn’t remember anything about her life before the day Maggie Muir found her on her front porch—a toddler, abandoned and alone. And maybe that’s okay. She has a beautiful life at Muir Farm, including an adopted family she adores and a successful career as a lawyer. But she also has a secret . . . one that raises just as many questions about her future as it does her unknown past...
  • No Vow Broken by Julie Moffett

    No Vow Broken by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is it a Dream Wedding or a Bad Dream?Geek girl Lexi Carmichael thought getting married would be just a formality. But when the guests are the pope, the president of the United States, and the first lady, she’d soon find out that weddings, much like life, do not always go as planned...
  • The Potter's House by Hannah Ellis

    The Potter's House by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes facing up to the past is the only way to create a better future…Since the tragic death of his father, Lowen Treneary has kept to himself in his pottery studio on the remote island of Bryher.His quiet life is just the way he likes it.Until Pippa comes along.The local café owner plunges his peaceful existence into chaos and brightens his days while she’s at it...
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    small town  m-f  contemporary  humor  length-medium
  • The Sandcastle Hurricane by Carolyn Brown

    The Sandcastle Hurricane by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Family, wounded hearts, and a Texas bed-and-breakfast are in need of repair in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s inviting novel about down-home comfort and second chances.Cousins Tabby and Ellie Mae are due for a change...
  • Rafe by Maryann Jordan

    Rafe by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The true measure of a man is not in the mistakes he makes…but in how he handles those mistakes. Rafe Walker gained fame while in the Army when he was photographed for a Military Calendar. Afterward, modeling contracts rolled in but he found his life in California lacking and longed for a change...
  • Riverbend Reunion by Carolyn Brown

    Riverbend Reunion by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Back home is the best place to start over in a heart-stirring Texas romance about friendship, second chances, and small-town scandals by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Riverbend, Texas, doesn’t look like the crossroads of anywhere. But for four high school besties reuniting after twenty years, it’s a place to unpack a lot of baggage...
  • Nothing But It All by Adriana Locke

    Nothing But It All by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke comes a warm and romantic novel about a marriage in trouble, two conspiring kids, and the meaning of long-lasting love. After twenty years, the cracks in Lauren Reed’s marriage are showing. She and her husband, Jack, feel more like roommates than a loving couple...
  • The Village of Lost and Found by Alison Sherlock

    The Village of Lost and Found by Alison Sherlock

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Scandal hit party girl Lucy Conway needs to leave London fast, so she packs her bags and escapes to the sleepy village of Cranbridge to take care of her beloved Uncle Frank.But the country village isn’t quite as idyllic as she remembers. To make matters worse, her Uncle’s pride and joy, The Cranbridge Times, is close to going out of business...
  • Strictly Family by Ruth Cardello

    Strictly Family by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A successful businessman’s life is turned upside down when a beautiful woman shows up with DNA proof that her daughter is his. The problem? He’s never met her.Thane:I didn’t believe I had a twin until I met Ashlee and saw myself in the eyes of her daughter. I was adopted. I understand why someone might seek out their biological parents, but I’m not her daughter’s father...
  • A New Song by Jan Karon

    A New Song by Jan Karon

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Jan Karon's millions of fans can't wait to sit down with her heartwarming and hilarious characters, who have a way of becoming family. In fact, readers and booksellers across the country kept Out to Canaan and At Home in Mitford on The New York Times bestseller list for months. In A New Song, Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, retires...
  • Kiss My Giraffe by Erin Nicholas

    Kiss My Giraffe by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Enemies to friends to almost lovers then back to enemies…to lovers.She's got a lot of baggage...literally and figuratively. And an entourage. And a freaking giraffe. For real.For a guy who wants to keep things simple, this is anything but...
  • Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The exciting and thrilling conclusion to Cash and Eva’s story, and the second book in the OPS series! The military defines a Nuclear Option as a drastic step or last resort, and I’m about to take it. Cash I am an expert marksman, engaging the enemy from afar. You’ll never see me coming because I’m that good. Even a sniper can be drawn out of hiding...
  • Cherish Me Forever by Layla Hagen

    Cherish Me Forever by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Reese Maxwell meets her happy-ever-after in Layla Hagen's latest. What starts as a pretend romance soon turns into so much more...Newly divorced Dominic Waldorf is the most coveted bachelor in Chicago. At least, that’s what he thinks. I’d describe him as more of a Neanderthal with a really nice backside.When I accidentally spill champagne on him at a charity event, he accuses me of hitting on him...
  • The Bluebonnet Battle by Carolyn Brown

    The Bluebonnet Battle by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive—until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, modern, and vegan. But this is about more than fried chicken versus tofu turkey. Matilda’s return is also stirring up their volatile, unresolved history...
  • Coral Weddings by Jan Moran

    Coral Weddings by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    While Marina and Jack contemplate their future, her sister Kai and her new fiance Axe are planning their wedding. When disagreements threaten to derail the wedding, the sisters' grandmother, the indomitable Ginger Delavie, doles out unusual advice. Soon, an unforgettable event unfolds...
  • Without A Hitch by Avery Maxwell

    Without A Hitch by Avery Maxwell

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    “A wedding is the beginning of the end.” —Lochlan BlaineLook, I’ve seen firsthand what marriage does to a man. I’m not interested. You want to take the leap? Fine. But have the decency to elope. Leave me out of it.And then I see her. The happily-ever-after-loving bridesmaid at the wedding I couldn’t get out of.This flower-wielding bombshell is all wrong for me...
  • Sisters Behaving Badly by Maddie Please

    Sisters Behaving Badly by Maddie Please

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 21 ratings
    Sisters Kitty and Jenny haven’t spoken since a very disappointing Carvery lunch. Kitty, sixty-two, thinks Jenny is turning grey. Jenny, sixty-six, thinks Kitty needs to grow up!So when both sisters inherit a farmhouse in rural France, it gives them the perfect chance to heal the rift between them...
  • Snowflakes Over The Starfish Café by Jessica Redland

    Snowflakes Over The Starfish Café by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Welcome to The Starfish Café - where you will find stunning views, delicious food and lifelong friendships.Two broken hearts.Since she inherited The Starfish Café, Hollie has poured her heart into the business, striving to keep her mother's traditions and warm-hearted spirit alive...
  • A Summer Surprise at the Little Blue Boathouse by Christie Barlow

    A Summer Surprise at the Little Blue Boathouse by Christie Barlow

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Preorder the next book in the heartwarming and bestselling Love Heart Lane series Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what When Bea Fernsby discovers her fiancé’s eyes have been wandering, she calls off the wedding and hits the road...
  • Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna

    Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Welcome to St. Paul, Minnesota—home to strong coffee, deadly winters, and Detective Kate Rosetti—a rising star in the local homicide department. When a young woman turns up dead along the Mississippi River in her latest assignment, Detective Rosetti quickly realizes it’s the work of a notorious cross-country serial killer...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  m-f  contemporary  suspense  humor  length-medium
  • Sunshine Over Wildflower Cottage by Milly Johnson

    Sunshine Over Wildflower Cottage by Milly Johnson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Escape to Wildflower Cottage this summer with the brilliant new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Teashop on the Corner and Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Café.Viv doesn't like animals. And the feeling is mutual: animals seem to hate Viv too...
  • The Village of Happy Ever Afters by Alison Sherlock

    The Village of Happy Ever Afters by Alison Sherlock

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Molly Hopkins has happily watched all of her friends’ dreams come true on Riverside Lane.Deciding to follow her passion for baking, Molly with the help of her friends takes the plunge and opens a Tea Garden in the village hoping to make it a summer to remember!Meanwhile, after a rather public end of his marriage, Logan Armstrong trusts no one but his beloved Grandad...
    Categorized as:
    small town  m-f  contemporary  humor  length-medium
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